[GreenKeys] Fwd: Looking for an IBM 2741 or similar

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they went and  were  turned into  IBM typewriters   by  some good   third 
party  typewriter people that would  change the interposers thinges out and 
rearrange it  to talk  to  a standard ball.  I  knew a guy taking them off  
GEPAC systems  and turning them to  office typers!
 
the boards and back plane in the pedestal?  scrapped  for   gold  in the 
IBM terms with typers American express used...
 
Ed# ( who would sell every  office  size  typer to  a  guy to rebuild in 
the   early 80s) ( the short carriage IBM machines  not  desirable  for office 
 work  that  we  would  get  fom GE / Honeywell...
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/10/2016 9:39:37 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

IBM 2741  is a terminal based on the Selectric typewriter, not a Teletype.
I don't  know where they all went, but they are scarce.  There was also
the  2740 using a different code but same basic machine.  A forerunner
was  the IBM 1050, which was a more modular product - could have  printer,
keyboard, paper tape reader, punch, and card reader in any  combination.
Since most of the IBM equipment was leased, IBM could get it  back and
destroy it when the lease terminated.

Teletype Model 29 was  originally going to be an up/low case 6-level 
machine to replace the Model  20 in Teletypesetter applications, but 
apparently nobody wanted to buy  them.  So it was changed into a machine 
doing upper case only with  one of the IBM BCD codes - 6-level, not EBCDIC. 
Supposedly these were for  internal Bell System use only, but I know some  
escaped.

Replacements for the 2741 were the daisywheel printers and  the NEC
Spinwriter, which was basically a daisywheel with the type  element
being cup-shaped rather than flat.  Then came the  typewriter-quality
dot matrix printers, mostly used with PCs rather than in  self-contained
terminals.

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